Christian Parenting.

Aloha friends, welcome back to the podcast, and I think you're going to love today's conversation.

I'm actually just asking myself how it took me so long to bring this topic to the podcast.

This is a topic I'm passionate about.

It is a topic that comes up pretty much

every day in the Swanson household. My husband, you may know, is a doctor, and health and nutrition

is super important to him. And if you happen to read my book, Boy Mom, which came out in 2019,

I have a whole section in there about the importance of raising healthy kids. That book covers the

things your sons need most from you, and one of them is a healthy foundation. Because as I say in that

book, kids are not born knowing what is good for them and what is not. When they're real young,

they eat what we give them. And then as they grow up, they eat what we allow

them to have. And so we have quite a responsibility as parents to give our kids a healthy

foundation for the best chance of them growing up to be healthy and also to educate them and

help them understand how to make good choices as they grow up. So again, I love this topic. I hope you do too,

because I'd really like to bring more conversations here to the podcast about kids and nutrition

and all the things we are opening up today. Now, today I'm super excited because I am

bringing Katie Kimball on. Katie has had a kitchen stewardship blog for many years. She also has kids cook

real food. She loves to talk about bringing kids into the kitchen. And today she's going to

explain how that can help them make better health choices. So we talk about a lot. We kind of hang

out talking about picky eaters. So if you've got one of those, I think this is going to be

helpful. I throw some Q&As at her from things people sent in through my Instagram stories.

And I think you're going to learn a lot and be encouraged and equipped to raise kids to be a little

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